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Sport 41: 2013
Contributors
Contributors
Pip Adam’s collection of short stories, Everything We Hoped For, won the Hubert Church Award for Best First Book in the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards. She received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Award in 2012. Her novel I’m Working on a Building will be published by VUP in October 2013.
Jo Aitchison is enjoying the sunny, sunny weather in Palmerston North and is running, writing and working her heart out. She is 40 years old and looks pretty damn good for her age!
Philip Armstrong teaches English and Cultural Studies at the University of Canterbury. He is the author of What Animals Mean (Routledge, 2008), a study of animals in literary fiction from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first.
Emma Barnes lives and writes in Aro Valley, Wellington. She’s currently writing a series of poems about an alternate life where she spends time with Sigourney Weaver.
David Beach’s three collections of poems are Abandoned Novel (VUP, 2006), The End of Atlantic City (VUP, 2008) and Scenery and Agriculture (VUP, 2012).
Tony Beyer’s new book is Great South Road and South Side, two longer poems (Puriri Press, Auckland, 2013).
Miro Bilbrough is a filmmaker who writes poetry, and is currently undertaking a Doctorate of Arts at the University of Western Sydney. She has published poetry in Sport, Landfall, Otoliths and Starch, and her debut collection Small-Time Spectre came out with Kilmog Press (2010). Her feature film Being Venice premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and is due for Australian theatrical release later in 2013. Her other films include Floodhouse and Bartleby.
Hera Lindsay Bird was the 2011 recipient of the Adam Prize. She is working on her first book, and has recently moved to Dunedin.
Peter Bland’s many books include Collected Poems 1956–2011 (Steele Roberts, 2012) and Breath Dances (Steele Roberts, 2013).
Gemma Bowker-Wright has a background in biological science and conservation and has worked as a science analyst at the Department for the Prime Minister and Cabinet since 2009. In 2011 she completed the MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters and has won the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award (2010) and the Katherine Mansfield Award (2011). Her debut collection of short stories will be published by Victoria University Press in 2014.
James Brown works at Te Papa. His fifth book of poems, Warm Auditorium, was published by VUP in 2012.
Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle’s poems have appeared in publications such as Landfall, Turbine, brief, Otoliths, Sport, Poetry NZ, a fine line and Colorado Review. She has recently completed her first book.
Samantha Byres is from Whanganui. She completed an MA at the IIML in 2012. page 277 She lives and works in Wellington, and this story is taken from a short story collection in progress.
Rajorshi Chakraborti is the author of four novels—Or the Day Seizes You, Shadow Play, Balloonists and Mumbai Rollercoaster—and Lost Men, a recent collection of short fiction. He was born in Kolkata, India in 1977, and grew up there and in Mumbai, and presently lives in Wellington. www.rajorshichakraborti.com
Medb Charleton divides her time between Ireland and New Zealand and is interested in writing about identity and the natural world. She’s had poems published recently in Landfall 224 and JAAM 30.
Geoff Cochrane’s latest book of poems is The Bengal Engine’s Mango Afterglow (VUP, 2012).
Megan Doyle Corcoran lives in Wellington and comes from San Diego. She appreciates that predators in New Zealand are in short supply. Her work has appeared in Turbine, the Dominion Post’s Your Weekend magazine and The First Line. She completed her MA in Creative Writing at the IIML in 2012.
Lynn Davidson’s fourth collection of poems is Common Land (VUP, 2102). A novella, The Desert Road, will be published by Rosa Mira Books as an ebook in 2013. She has been awarded a Hawthornden residency for 2013.
Breton Dukes lives in Dunedin. His collection of stories, Bird North, was published by VUP in 2011. Empty Bones, a novella and stories, will follow in 2014.
Lynley Edmeades has recently returned to New Zealand from Northern Ireland, where she was studying poetry. She is currently a postgraduate at the University of Otago, writing a thesis on John Cage. Her poems have been published in various journals in New Zealand, UK, Ireland, and the US, and she also writes reviews for the Listener and Landfall Review Online.
Patrick Elliott is from Waipawa and Wellington. He is a student, a writer, and a dishwasher. This is his first published work.
Patrick Evans’s most recent novel is Gifted (VUP, 2010). The Back of His Head is one of two novels he is working on. He lives in Christchurch.
Paul Ewen was born in Blenheim and raised in Lyttelton, Christchurch and Ashburton. He has since lived in Singapore, Vietnam, and London, where he is now based. His work has featured in Landfall, the British Council’s New Writing anthology, Five Dials, the Times Higher Education Supplement and Dazed & Confused. His first book, London Pub Reviews, was called ‘a cross between Bladerunner and Coronation Street’ (Waterstones).
Joan Fleming’s first book is The Same as Yes (VUP, 2011). She is currently living in Dunedin, finishing a MA in Iterative Poetics, and working of a collection of failed love stories.
This poem is from Bernadette Hall’s forthcoming collection, Life and Customs, due out from VUP in November 2013. She edited Best NZ Poems 2011. She also edited The Judas Tree, selected poems by the late Christchurch poet Lorna Staveley Anker (CUP, 2013).
page 278Jessica Hansell is a writer, artist and musician who also creates under the name Coco Solid. Last year she completed her MA in Creative Writing at the IIML and recently has been working on an online cartoon called ‘Hook Ups’. In 2013 she is in Seoul for an art residency at Korea’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
Helen Heath’s first collection of poems, Graft (VUP, 2012), has been shortlisted for the Royal Society of New Zealand’s 2013 Science Book Prize.
Anna Jackson’s fifth collection of poems is Thicket (AUP, 2011). Her story ‘When We Were Bread’ was published in The Long and the Short of It.
Gregory Kan is a writer who straddles living in Auckland and Wellington. He completed an MA in Creative Writing at the IIML, and was a co-editor of Turbine in 2012. His work has appeared in publications such as Brief, Percutio, Otoliths and Turbine. His interests include food, and power.
Dave Kent (1946–2013) was an artist and designer and founding member of the Wellington Media Collective whose graphic work supported a huge range of activist, community and cultural causes and events from 1978 to 1998. Though described as a modest man ‘who seemed to lead from as far to the rear as he could get’, he was in important respects a guiding conscience in the Collective. He probably began writing poems after developing Motor Neuron Disease in 2008, though it’s also likely he began earlier but kept quiet about it. His funeral was in Wellington on Thursday 2 May.
Brent Kininmont wrote ‘Shopping’ in Japan, where some hearses have keypads, though only on the driver’s door. A manuscript of his poetry was shortlisted in 2011 for the Kathleen Grattan Award.
Aleksandra Lane’s first collection of poems (in English), Birds of Clay, was published by VUP in 2012. Aleks lives in Melbourne and is enrolled for a PhD at Massey University.
Stefanie Lash lives in Wellington. Kreutz Sungrazers are a family of comets whose orbit brings them extremely close to the sun, believed to be fragments of one enormous primordial comet.
Kerry Ann Lee is a visual artist and design educator from Wellington, New Zealand. Her art explores cultural intersections and hybrid formations through found materials. She is has worked and exhibited work internationally in New York, Melbourne and Shanghai. Big City Rising (大市上升) was created following an Asia New Zealand Foundation artist residency in Taipei in 2012, and presents a wondrous look at urban development and the fantastic road to the unknown.
Anna Livesey is trying out life in the deep South.
Frankie McMillan is a short story writer and poet. The Bag Lady’s Picnic and other stories was published by Shoal Bay Press. In 2005 she was awarded the CNZ Todd Bursary. In 2008 and 2009 her work was selected for Best NZ Fiction anthologies. Many of her stories have also been broadcast on radio. Her poetry has been published widely in NZ and overseas. Her book Dressing for the Cannibals was published in 2009 and in that same year she won the NZ Poetry Society International competition. Recent poetry appears in Turbine, JAAM, page 279 Snorkel, The London Grip, Shenandoah and Best NZ Poems 2012. She teaches at the Hagley Writers’ Institute in Christchurch.
Maria McMillan has recently had poems in Magma Poetry, Shenandoah and Neue Rundshau. ‘Fatigue’ and ‘Rope’ are written in the voice of an aerial performer and are from the sequence The Rope Walk, to be published by Seraph Press this July. Maria’s second book, Tree Space, will be published by VUP in 2014.
Gerald Melling was an architect and writer. Born in Liverpool, England, in 1943, he travelled widely before settling in Wellington. His poems appeared in Landfall, Islands, Sport, Takahë, the Listener and elsewhere. The Skybox, a house he designed and built for himself in Egmont St, continues to enjoy a remarkable popularity. Gerald began to write the poems collected in Cursory Rhymes when he was diagnosed with cancer in late October 2012. He died in December.
Hannah Mettner is a writer from Gisborne who lives and works in Wellington. For further information please refer to the poems.
Jo Morris is an English teacher from Hastings who, in 2012, completed the MA in Creative Writing at the IIML and now does her best to accommodate both passions (teaching and writing) in her working day. She has been published in Cordite, Trout, Turbine and Landfall.
Frances Mountier grew up in Christchurch and lives in Petone. Her work has appeared in Turbine, Takahë, Renegade House, Hue & Cry, JAAM, An Aotearoa Affair and Flash Frontier. Frances is the 2012/13 recipient of the Lavinia Fellowship at New Pacific Studio Mt Bruce. She is working on a novel about a Christchurch family.
Emma Neale’s most recent collection, The Truth Garden (Otago University Press), won the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2011. She was the 2012 Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago.
Bob Orr’s new book of poems, Odysseus in Wolloomooloo, is forthcoming from Steele Roberts.
Vincent O’Sullivan’s new collection of poems is Us, then. His collection of short stories, The Families, will be published by VUP in 2014.
Melissa Day Reid’s stories have appeared in Sport and Hue & Cry. She lives in Kaikoura.
Cursory Rhymes ~ Gerald Melling
Introductory note by Geoff Cochrane
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page 280Harry Ricketts is the author of many collections of poems, most recently Just Then (VUP, 2012), and biographies and personal essays. He is an editor of New Zealand Books.
Kerrin P. Sharpe’s first book of poems, Three Days in a Wishing Well, was published by VUP in 2012.
Charlotte Simmonds is the author of The World’s Fastest Flower, shortlisted for Best First Book of Poetry in the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
Marty Smith is interested in how faith manifests itself, and tracks the idea through quite a few of her poems. Her first collection, Horse with hat, was shortlisted for the 2011 Kathleen Grattan Award, and will be published by VUP in 2014.
Elizabeth Smither is the author of many collections of poems, most recently The Blue Coat (AUP, 2013), as well as novels, short stories and journals.
Adam Stewart is a writer and artist in Wellington, where he completed his MA in poetry at the IIML, 2012. He is hoping to publish a book of form-based poetry in the near future, a selection of which can be found in Turbine. Adam was born in Whanganui.
Rosabel Tan is a research coordinator at the Liggins Institute and editor at The Pantograph Punch. Her writing has appeared in Sport, Hue & Cry, Turbine and Metro.
Tim Upperton’s first poetry collection, A House On Fire (Steele Roberts), appeared in 2009. He won the Bronwyn Tate Memorial International Poetry Competition in 2011 and the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition in 2012. Recent poems are anthologised in The Best of Best New Zealand Poems (VUP) and Villanelles (Everyman).
Catherine Vidler’s first collection of poems, Furious Triangle, was published in 2011 by Puncher and Wattmann. She is the editor of trans-Tasman literary magazine Snorkel.
Tom Weston is the author of five collections of poems, most recently Small Humours of Daylight (Steele Roberts, 2008).
Sugar Magnolia Wilson is from Fern Flat, a valley in the Far North of New Zealand. In 2012 she completed her MA in Creative Writing at the IIML. She has had work published in JAAM, Minarets, Shenandoah and Turbine. In May 2013 she will take up a UNESCO funded writer’s residency in Salvador, Brazil at the Insituto Sacatar.
Lydia Wisheart completed an MA in Creative Writing at the IIML in 2012. She lives in Wellington where she is sometimes a writer, sometimes a waitress, and the Literary Editor of COMMON magazine. She has also had work published in Turbine.
Ashleigh Young’s first book of poems, Magnificent Moon, was published by VUP in 2012. She recently lived for two years in London, where she was an editor at the Institute of Ismaili Studies. ‘Things to do’ is a work in progress.